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Speaker 1: I'm Katherine Cowdery. You're listening to Taking Stock with Vim

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Speaker 1: Box and Kathleen Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. In December tw

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Speaker 1: was interviewing locals in connection with the upcoming elections. His

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Speaker 1: new book is entitled The Rise and Fall of Nation's

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Speaker 1: Ten Rules of Change in the Post crisis World. He's

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Speaker 1: the previous author and of Breakout Nations Who Share. Sharma

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Speaker 1: for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Were thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Thanks tell us what you learned by

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Speaker 1: traveling around India and speaking with locals about their lives. Well, Uh,

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Speaker 1: that chapter that they're referring to is called the Price

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Speaker 1: you read a very interesting new book, The Rise and

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Speaker 1: World by Rouchier Charmer, Rochier says, you can't talk about

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